A dead star is leaving behind a bizarre 42-light-year-long trail, China’s Einstein Probe finds
The 42-light-year-long X-ray trail is the longest ever observed from a pulsar wind nebula.
Published: 1 hour ago | By Purva Muley
Radio signals seen directly from an exoplanet for the first time—here's what astronomers found
The radio signals are not an indication of aliens trying to communicate with us. Instead, they are related to something we are all too familiar with.
Published: 3 hours ago | By Lakshmi Kola
ESA and JAXA's Ramses probe powers up ahead of a rare close encounter with asteroid Apophis
“For the first time ever, nature is bringing one to us and conducting the experiment itself.”
Published: 7 hours ago | By Ankita Garkoti
A dead star siphoning gas at 335,000 mph: NASA-JAXA mission makes 'groundbreaking' observation
Astronomers watched a neutron star's accretion disk vanish, only to reappear spinning in reverse.
Published: 1 day ago | By Purva Muley
NASA's Hubble images another spiral galaxy—but this one is an oddball
It's one of the few known spiral galaxies with a central bulge that extends from its disk at a right angle.
Published: 2 days ago | By Lakshmi Kola
Mars looks purple in a stunning new ESA image. Here's what's behind the color
ESA shared 3D close-ups and a topographic map to show how high or low the ground sits.
Published: 4 days ago | By Ankita Garkoti
Astrophotographer shares incredible ‘deep field’ image featuring a supernova discovered two weeks ago
The supernova was found by NASA-funded ATLAS and had a magnitude of 17.3 at the time of discovery.
Updated: 5 days ago | By Harsh Vardhan
Actively feeding black holes can facilitate star formation instead of preventing it, finds new study
The findings provide a novel perspective on how AGN feedback influences the evolution of galaxies.
Published: Sep 15, 2026 | By Lakshmi Kola
White House forms new council to find answers to the UFO mystery
The new council will study unexplained aerial phenomena and examine what may be behind the sightings.
Published: Sep 15, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
Scientists just found a bizarre new form of ice that could explain what’s inside Uranus and Neptune
A new hexagonal ice phase found in lab tests may explain Neptune and Uranus's odd magnetic fields. Here’s how.
Published: Sep 14, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
Rare supernova lights up spiral galaxy 45 million light-years away; check out these pictures
The supernova is unfolding before our eyes in a spiral galaxy and astrophotographers are busy documenting its changes.
Published: Sep 13, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
What if dark energy is evolving? Comprehensive new dataset questions a core assumption
“Two completely independent measurements have found hints of time variation in dark energy"
Published: Sep 13, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
NASA's Webb and Hubble reveal how tiny objects beyond Neptune still preserve their ancient origins
Hubble and Webb have been used simultaneously to uncover secrets of 27 tiny objects beyond Neptune.
Published: Sep 11, 2026 | By Purva Muley
"Never encountered objects that act like this": NASA’s Chandra reveals a new class of cosmic objects
The scientists found these sources among objects that appeared in the lowest X-ray-energy images in the Chandra archive but disappeared in higher-energy images.
Published: Sep 10, 2026 | By Pranjal Nath
NASA's Hubble images 'superbubble' in Milky Way satellite galaxy—and it's helping study how stars are born
The superbubble is gigantic, measuring around 210 by 140 light-years across.
Published: Sep 9, 2026 | By Lakshmi Kola
Source of gravitational waves from a black hole merger weighing 230 suns may have been an illusion
The possibility of lensing appears to be the most convincing yet in describing the unusual source.
Published: Sep 9, 2026 | By Pranjal Nath
New study reveals fresh clues about the mysterious origin of comet 3I/ATLAS
"This object gives us a rare chance to study material that formed somewhere completely different from our own solar system."
Published: Sep 8, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
Moon under a blockade? Chinese scientists sound alarm on potential military conflicts in cislunar space
A new paper has warned about how countries may strategically use their spacecraft to gain control of the space between Earth and the Moon.
Published: Sep 6, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
For the first time, scientists may have finally found direct evidence of dark matter
“It's thrilling to wonder if this could be the first hint of a dark-matter observation.”
Published: Sep 3, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
Could NASA's TESS space telescope help in finding dark matter? New study proposes a way
Dark matter makes up much of the universe but is invisible, making detection a tricky affair.
Published: Sep 1, 2026 | By Purva Muley